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Although professors are usually able to analyze Supreme Court nominees in terms of their past decisions and writings, Thomas's race complicates the issue greatly. If confirmed, Thomas will be only the second Black person to sit on the high court, following in the steps of retiring Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall...
...consensus among students about whether Thomas should be approved for a post on the nation's highest judicial bench. Yet there is one recurring theme echoed by most of the students interviewed: While they would like to see a Black judge fill the seat left vacant by Justice Thurgood Marshall, they are more concerned with Thomas's ideology than his race in assessing his credentials for the high court...
Another Black law student, Anthony G. Brown '84, who is in his third year at Harvard Law School, agrees that it is "a little suspect that a Black man was chosen to replace Thurgood Marshall." Still, Brown wants Thomas to be confirmed, arguing that "it's good to see that there is a Black man who is conservative in a high position...
This week the Senate will start hearings on Thomas' nomination to fill Thurgood Marshall's seat on the Supreme Court. Inside and outside the hearing room, Thomas' life story and its meaning will emerge as major themes of the debate. Civil rights groups and Democratic liberals are sharply divided over the nomination. Some organizations, like the National Urban League, that would fiercely oppose a white appointee who shared Thomas' harsh opposition to affirmative action and skepticism about racial integration have declined to join a campaign to defeat his elevation to the high court...